The graph shows the unemployment rates in the us and japan between march 1993 and march 1999.

Given is the graph that illustrates how unemployment rates changed in the US and Japan from March 1993 to March 1999. It can be clearly seen that, as the years went by, gap between two countries figures related to this issue closed steadily.

To begin with, on the premise of given time period, in terms of total number of jobless people the US was significantly ahead of Japan (7% vs. 2.5%). From that time on, the amount of unemployed people started to go down gradually and bottomed out in 1998 when the percentages of the unemployed reached to 5% of the whole work force of the country. On the contrary, in Japan joblessness figures went up considerably and hit its peak doubling in 1998 when it met with the figure for the USA.

When it comes to the final year, to be more precise, the year of 1999, both countries almost preserved their unemployment levels at around 5%.

To sum it up, although unemployment problem decreased in essence in the US, it experienced upward trend in Japan.